Released November 28, 2025 as free digital download and beautiful limited double digipak CD edition.

"Exposure Fields" began in early 2024 as an idea for a short EP with a nostalgic electronica slant, reminiscent of early material Dissolved made in old software such as Reason 3 and Acid Pro. These ideas were then broken up further and restructured. As the year went on, the project was put to one side as work began on ideas for the third Peltiform album, as well as various remix works. These ideas resulted in longer, more deconstructed and expansive atmospheric tracks along with sketches being compiled for a separate ambient tinged album.

When work resumed on "Exposure Fields" in late 2024 and into 2025, these methods merged and what was once an EP, expanded into a more varied and experimental release, with longer, fragmented electronica outings and grainy broken beats pushing things into more intense and collage-like soundscape tracks. The tracks incorporated more varied sounds and still drew notable influence from the aforementioned early Dissolved works, but also from underground electronica like Locust’s “Weathered Well”, broken techno styles like Surgeon’s “Balance” and Speedjack’s “Surge”, the layered atmospheres of Cyclobe’s “Luminous Darkness”, Leo Anabaldi’s “Void” and the haze and jitter of obscure 70s and 80s TV soundtracks.

The body of the album had expanded but something in the sounds felt they could be deconstructed even further and to make this happen, a host of choice artists were brought on board for remixing, some from the Mahorka roster - Tokee, Weldroid, Jet Jaguar, Nonima and Abdicant along with other familiar artists like Apydiagirls, exm, Milieu, Vortex Count and Michael Valentine West. A collaborative "Sec-Run" version of "The Interlunation" by Dissolved and Mitoma also happened.

With the intention of breaking its horizon and pulling it into unknown territories, the result was a second full length album that carries the echos and textures of the originals into a broken menagerie of styles and melodic colours. It’s hopeful and atmospheric, beat laden and infused with the vibes of two electronic decades gone but still surviving in evolving forms and mystery.

Each panel of Dissolved’s art for the Double Digipak CD was intentionally created to represent the new expanse and variety contained in the album, built from his collages and photography and intended to make you look twice and and reflect on the strange building blocks of the completed audio structure.

CD 1. Exposure Fields
All tracks written and produced by Dissolved
Mastered by Tam Ferrans

CD 2. Exporsure Fields Remixes
Remixes written and produced by Tokee, Nonima, Abdicant, Apydiagirls, exm, Weldroid, Michael Valentine West, Jet Jaguar, Milieu, Vortex Count, Mitoma and Dissolved
Additional mastering by Tam Ferrans
Vortex Count Remix 2 on the digital download release is different version from the Vortex Count Remix on the CD.

Artwork, photography and layout by Dissolved

Thanks to Ivo, Tam and all the respective artists

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